Sunday, October 01, 2006

The link above takes you to a great website. It breaks down the political personality of several public figures and leaders.

I think the description of Bush as favouring personal relationships in his governement offers an explanation of how Rove, Cheney, Rumfeild and Wolfowitz can manage to have such major effects on political decisions during Bush's terms. I think this may be another form of group dynamic which ties into Mister anchovy's post about torture, in Syria, and the R.C.M.P. and the movie Human Behaviour Experiments.

"George W. Bush's major personality strengths with reference to hispresidential campaign are the important political skills of charisma and interpersonality,which will enable him to connect with people and retain a following and hisself-confidence in the face of adversity. His major personality-based limitationspertaining to presidential performance include a propensity to display a superficial graspof complex issues, to be easily bored by routine, to act impulsively, and to favorpersonal connections, friendship, and loyalty over competence in his staffing decisionsand appointments %u2013 all of which could render a Bush administration relativelyvulnerable to errors of judgment or ethical misconduct."